And sub-pixel-anti-aliasing must be disabled automatically because
it relys on the physical left-to-right RGB order of the pixels on an LCD screen.
Otherwise people with sub-pixel-aliasing on would see coloured edges on each
letter. Does X support vertical anti-aliasing at all?

Current antialiasing settings allow RGB, BGR and vertical versions of those two (VRGB, VBGR)- I see no problem in dettecting this setting and make fontconfig/Xft render text with apropriate setting at any case when text is to be drawn rotated 90 degrees. Anyway INAFXD (I am not a fontconfig/Xft developer)

I agree. Actually, I've always disliked konqueror's sidebar because of the sidewaysness of it, but more because of the appearance the sidewaysness creates. The huge thick bar separating the sidebar from the rest of konqueror is, IMHO, absolutely fugly. It sticks out like a sore thumb, and makes what otherwise is a beautiful application (when the sidebar is off) look cludgey and archaic. Don't get me wrong, though -- I still prefer konqueror over any other browser, I just don't like the sidebar's appearance.

Besides that I have to agree, Konqueror's "Navigation Panel" is well on the way delivering direct access solutions to every problem you did (and didn't =P) think of. This as a feature on its own is very welcome, but I see less and less use for it in one program's window where it most of the time just takes away space for the content while still not having enough space to be really useful itself (aka crowded). Add to this that it might well be open in multiple of your multiple Konqueror windows and you can't resist calling it a bloath of view space.

So my proposal would be: Considering that the "Navigation Panel" is more an more becoming a system tool rather than a sidebar for Konqueror, how about making it independent of Konqueror and show it as a part of the desktop's left (or right) border instead? Then you can access all your content and services all the time, and Konqueror can focus on itself again. =)

You can make your own, but they have to behave in the way that Netscape 6/Mozilla sidebar entries do. Note that we don't support XUL. Also, form POSTs don't work yet in Konqi due to a KHTML limitation. I hope to work around that shortly.

If a web sidebar entry doesn't suit your needs, you can always make a konq sidebar plugin with C++ too. It's easy to write a plugin. Have a look at the source code for the web sidebar model for an example.

Wouldn't it be of advantage to the KDE desktop to have some default default devices listed in the sidebar, like Floppy, CD-Rom, NFS mounts, samba shares, ...?
Of course, dynamically added as KDE detects these devices at startup.
This way one would not have to know where Distribution put their mount points.
(SuSE in /media , Mandrake in /mnt ... )

that's not what I meant. I thought of icons showing floppy, cdrom, etc directly on the sidebar or maybe even as part of the directory structure.
Or could i get to confusing?
I simply believe that people don't think of floppy drives as a service. It shold rather be part of your filesystem. Some newer distribution already took on that idea and used a similar directory layout as known from windows explorer.
What do you think? Couldn't it improve proctivity?

Nice suggestion; I do keep icons for removable media on my desktop, would be nice to have them in the sidebar like that as well.

On a slightly related note - has anyone gotten konqs FS mount feature to recognize and correctly handle encrypted filesystems? Say I have /mnt/secret in my fstab, mapped to an encrypted loopback filesystem. When mounting it from the console, I'm asked for a passphrase before the filesystem is decrypted and mounted to /mnt/secret. When setting up a .desktop file for it, it seems to just hang indefinitely when double-clicked, presumably waiting for the "mount" call to finish, while "mount" is waiting for a passphrase...

I'm just developing a web based bookmark sidebar to store your bookmarks on a server and access them from every sidebar enabled browser on earth. (Mozilla, Opera, and now Konqueror). - So I was just waiting for this to come! Great work!
I have just one question though: is target="_content" on a-tags usable, as in Mozilla? If not, how would I reproduce the same functionality?

> Yes, we use the _content hack
interesting, so konqeror bars will be compatible with NS and IE bars, however there is another cool hack to add - the _search hack. In one site i don't actually remember which was it I found that when you run searches the search results are displaying in the search side bar (MSIE), it was done with target="_search" or window.open("_search", "url.com", "width=160"). A very cool feature to have a search sidebar in konqui too which opens up on demand from sites.

Wouldn't it be cool if there was a button that appeared when you have multiple tabs open that let you close the tab in the front like Mozilla does? Something like isn't as sexy as this but it's very useful. :)

That button actually exists. You can add it to your toolbar by simple right clicking on the toolbar and selecting "configure toolbars".
See the attached image for how the close tab and even the new tab buttons look alike.

Hah, this is simply too cool, Just adding all types of news to my Konqueror Sidepanel now (running CVS) but I like to suggest some sort of Grouping functionality would make it easier to differ between normal Bookmarks, Home, Printer and the Sidepanel news thingies. Maybe a separator would do the trick to distinguish and separate them.

Yes, some things in the side bar just don't make any sense...
Just click on the history tab for instance. Now you want to clear the history, what do you do? Right click it you say... so lets see... what do we have here...

Open in new window
Open in background tab
Open in new tab
----------------------------
Undo
Cut
Copy
----------------------------
Rename
Move to Trash
Delete
Add to bookmarks
----------------------------
Open with
Preview with Embedded Advanced Editor
----------------------------
Copy to
Move to

Usability Hell huh? So how do you clear the history? Right click *one of the entries*.

This is why we are provideing Konqi side panels and even a generic DCOPRSS service so you could use thinkings like a screen saver or karamba to display the data. The reason why we provided an RSS service is so that you can use a central area do access all of your RSS data. Imagine a poor webserver if you had 10 konqi sidebars open. We solved that problem by only forwarding a query when its needed.

Also Frerich Raabe and I just finished up an XMLRPC service wrapper so that you can search and add feeds from syndic8.com transparently. Again becuse we use a dcop service we minimise the hit on a remote service/webserver because we can do things like cacheing and limiting.

DCOPRSS is something cool becuase anyone can have what they want with minimal effort and code. Even from bash:

The sidebar definitely does not use much space. It hides away or restores at a single click! Actually I personally don't use the newsticker anymore because of the amount of panel space that is lost, and having an extension bar is painful in Xinerama.

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Indeed, there is a functionality overlap, although the HTML one is more flexible (it can be any HTML) and user-friendly (click button.. tab gets added) than the RDF one. On the flip side, RDF works everywhere.

I think there are plans to integrate the two applets. George can probably give more details here.

This feature was originally implemented by Mozilla and Netscape 6, and as Navindra says, it's really easy to use. Just click and it adds to the sidebar. The sites out there have supported it for a long time now. If you don't want to use it, you'll never know it's there. If you do, you'll be quite happy. Personally, I'm addicted to it already. :)